Word: mad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded - with what caution - with what foresight - with what dissimulation I went to work . . . Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust...
...Louis Cohen, who teaches legal psychiatry at Yale, and Dr. Thomas Coffin, assistant professor of psychology at Hofstra College, riffled through the clues left by 18 psychotic murderers. Their conclusion: mad killers seem to commit their murders in a distinct pattern; there is seldom enough method in their madness to fool the dumbest flatfoot...
...grueling 64 games in four days. Varipapa, though 53, was the only one to finish without sore muscles. Despite his chunkiness his arms are sinewy, his wrists powerful, his legs hard. Volatile as he is, Varipapa rarely loses his temper during a match. Says he: "Sometimes I get mad when the ball hits the pins the right way and they don't go down like they should. But I don't blow up. I know that Varipapa will win in the end with his perfection and precision...
...finally blamed the universal system of neglect less on attendants than on a public so indifferent that it would allow hospitals to be dark closets for storing the mental wreckage of modern civilization. When he quit his attendant's job to write a book, Maine was plenty mad-but not in a medical sense...
...last-minute change in the meeting's site, made to accommodate the overflow crowd, resulted in a mad hegira to New Lecture Hall that caused British poet Auden to murmur, "It was rather frightening...